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ZIPKEY, V3.04e Copyright 1995 Eric Isaacson.
ZIPKEY.OVL Copyright 1989--1994 Eric Isaacson.
All rights reserved.
Eric Isaacson Software
416 East University Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47401-4739
(812)339-1811
GO ZIPKEY on CompuServe
71333.3154@compuserve.com
This diskette contains the ZIPKEY zipcode-areacode-timezone
directory and keyboard enhancement program. Please feel free
to distribute the files by uploading them to bulletin-board
systems, and by copying and distributing the diskette to anyone
interested.
You can setup ZIPKEY on your hard drive by typing either
A:INSTALL or B:INSTALL (depending on whether the diskette is in
the A or B drive) to your DOS prompt. You should run INSTALL
even if you have already copied the files to your hard drive --
it will set ZIPKEY to your tinezone, and create a handy
ZIPS.BAT file for you.
What's New In This Version
ZIPKEY version 3 adds time zones to the database (43000+ time
zone records occupying a grand total of 273 bytes!). Now when
you type in a zipcode or a city name, ZIPKEY will tell you what
the city's time zone is, and show you the current time there.
There are also specifiers for playing back timezone codes as
keystrokes, should you wish to do so.
I have also added an INSTALL program, to make ZIPKEY much easier
to set up and use. INSTALL will copy the ZIPKEY files to your
hard drive, set up a ZIPS.BAT file for easy invocation from any
DOS prompt, and, if you wish, modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT to
include the line that installs memory-resident ZIPKEY. INSTALL
can also print out the manual, and make copies of this
evaluation diskette for you to give to your friends.
Of course, the data itself is updated every month. The
evaluation data is constrained to be at least six months old,
so that you're now getting the data provided to registered
users six months ago.
File Name Conventions for BBS Uploading
I have abandoned a previous request that the program-and-manual
be in a separate file from the data. It has proved to be too
confusing, and with inexpensive 14400-baud modems available, it
isn't burdensome to download everything at once.
So I recommend the distribution file name be either ZIPKEY, or
ZIPKEYym, where y is the last digit of the year of the data,
and m is the month of the data (1=Jan, ... , A=Oct B=Nov
C=Dec). The extension of the file will, of course, reflect the
compression program used.
Examples: ZIPKEY47.ZIP will be the PKZIPped version containing
the 7/94 data. ZIPKEY5C.ARJ will be the ARJ-compressed file
containing the 12/95 data. If you prefer not to have version
information in file names, you can use just ZIPKEY.ZIP.